Skill

Your garden doesn’t care about your schedule. Frost hits at 3 AM. Your seedlings need hardening exactly 2 weeks before transplanting. The soil temperature crossed 10°C while you were in a meeting. And every gardening website gives you advice for “Zone 5,” which means nothing when you’re growing tomatoes in containers on a balcony in Finland at 63°N. This is the kind of problem AI is actually good at. Real-time monitoring, domain-specific knowledge, proactive action based on data you can’t manually check every day. ...

Ask Claude Code “when should I start tomato seedlings?” and you’ll get a perfectly reasonable, perfectly useless answer. “Generally 6-8 weeks before your last frost date.” Thanks, Google could have told me that. The problem isn’t that Claude is wrong. It’s that Claude doesn’t know you. It doesn’t know you’re in Kokkola, Finland at 63°N, that your last frost date is June 15, that you grow in containers on a south-facing balcony, and that you have grow lights for the long dark spring. With that context, the answer changes completely, and it changes differently for every variety in your collection. ...